Posted on 03/13/2023 1:30:37 PM PDT by grundle
All you need is ganas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yqIm58ULo
That's funny!
I seem to recall using it quite extensively in my profession.
We drove to the local junior college at 6:30a.m. for college Calculus, and then we drove to high school at 7:30. 1965-66.
What an idiotic idea!
When my kids complained about their math homework, with the typical, “I’m never gonna use this in real life,” excuse, I countered with this.
Higher mathematics teaches you to think abstractly. It develops synaptic connections and pathways in your mind that will give you an advantage in problem solving, textual comprehension, cognition, and thinking speed in adulthood.
The only reason I can imagine to minimize, dismiss, or eliminate mathematics is that more and more teachers have degrees in crap like Gender Studies than in classical liberal arts: mathematics, surveys of history, the sciences, and literature, ethics, rhetoric, logic, Greek, Latin, and at least one other language.
Next will be algebra.
Then multiplication and division.
Then reading and writing.
All professions must be accessible to the stupid.
Civilizational suicide.
Engineers don’t need calculus. That’s what computers are for. /S
I told my kids it was weightlifting for the brain ...
It is the ability to think abstractly and solve problems symbolically that sets us apart from apes. Such ideas have given us freedom from disease, complex construction, and the ability to fly. Anyone who doesn’t appreciate that is a moron.
I’ll leave it at that.
Don’t need calculus to carjack-—rob-—& other activities.
And when POCs don’t get jobs as engineers they can blame racism.
No calculus, no modern society. It is that simple.
It is a selector. If you don’t have the smarts to pass calculus, you will not do will in most technical or analytical majors in a rigorous school (then again, these days, how many schools are still rigorous?).
In fact, Calc is a lot older than that. And I'm sure there's many a electrical, mechanical, aerospace and many other engineers who would dispute such a silly claim of it being "bankrupt", whatever that is even supposed to mean. Someone has to make the engines run and the rockets keep from exploding on the pad. Obviously, it's isn't this biology professor.
Right. Let’s use African math instead.
‘It develops synaptic connections and pathways in your mind that will give you an advantage in problem solving, textual comprehension, cognition, and thinking speed in adulthood.’
yes, it may do all of that for a select few; it also has caught thousands of otherwise bright students in a vortex of failure, rendering any thought of academic excellence, well academic...
I failed miserably at algebra, and was thus deemed dim and shunted into the dustbin of low profile college application; my friends, in my estimation no smarter than I, passed the course and were used by my parents to shame and humiliate me...and as far as fostering abstract thought, coursework in logic and rhetoric would serve far better than distant mathmatical concepts...
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